# Top 50 Consumer Angel Investors in Canada in June 2026

## Scott Banister
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.

## Daniel Debow
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

Daniel Debow is the Chair of the Board of Build Canada. He attended the Stanford Law School.Daniel is the Vice President of Product (Demand) at Shopify. He previously worked as an SVP at Salesforce.com, where he drives marketing for Salesforce Work.com, a sales performance management solution that helps Facebook, LinkedIn, Spotify, and otherinnovative companies align, motivate, and drive the performance of their sales teams. Prior to joining Salesforce, Daniel was co-founder and co-CEO of Rypple, a social performance management platform acquired by Salesforce in 2012. Prior to Rypple, Daniel was on the founding team of Workbrain, which provided workforce management solutions to Wal-Mart, Citibank, and other large enterprises. Workbrain grew to $100 million in annual revenues before being acquired by Infor in 2007.A sought after speaker on how social media is changing the workplace, Daniel is a contributor to Fortune.com and the Huffington Post. He’s been widely quoted in Wired, the Financial Times, the Economist and Bloomberg Businessweek. Daniel holds a JD/MBA from the University of Toronto and an LLM in Law, Science and Technology from Stanford University.

## Thomas Pentz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Internet

Thomas Wesley Pentz, born November 10, 1978, better known by his stage name Diplo, is a Grammy-nominated American DJ, music producer, rapper and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. He founded and managed the record company Mad Decent and co-founded the non-profit organization Heaps Decent. Among other jobs, he has worked as a schoolteacher in Philadelphia. He is also the co-creator and lead member of the electronic dancehall music project, Major Lazer. His 2013 EP Revolution debuted at number 68 on the US Billboard 200.During his rise to fame, Diplo worked with British musician M.I.A., an artist who is credited with giving him exposure in his early career. Later, he and fellow M.I.A. producer Switch created a Jamaican dancehall project titled Major Lazer. Since then, Diplo has worked on production and mixtape projects with many other notable pop artists, such as Britney Spears, Beyoncé, No Doubt, Justin Bieber, Usher, Snoop Dogg, CL and G-Dragon. His alias, short for Diplodocus, derives from his childhood fascination with dinosaurs. He is the co-producer of several tracks on Madonna's 2015 album Rebel Heart (2015) and he collaborated with Skrillex to create the group Jack Ü.Source: 

## Paul Buchheit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

Paul Buchheit is based out of Mountain View, California and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Standard Capital. Paul Buchheit attended Case Western Reserve University.

## Jean-François Grenon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Computer, Machine Learning

Jean François Grenon brings more than 25 years of expertise in the telecom and wireless space. Prior to forming Vectrad Networks and then NTF-Capital in 2003, Jean-François was Chairman and CEO of Innova Corporation, a company he led folllowing its listing on the NASDAQ.Jean-François graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal andholds a Harvard Business School MBA.He sits on the board of several innovation driven corporations including Inter-Mobile S.A.S, a NexTFund portfolio company.

## Kevin Hale
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Kevin Hale was a partner at Y Combinator. He worked with their portfolio companies on user experience design, product development and customer support. In 2006, he co-founded Wufoo, which was one of the earliest Y Combinator funded startups. The online form builder was later acquired by SurveyMonkey. He attended

## Jay Deen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fashion, Software, E-Commerce

Jay brings more than 20 years of experience in software development to organizations he works, most recently focusing on social networking services in Mobility & Telco markets. Jay was a founding employee and CTO of UXP Systems that was acquired by Amdocs in 2018. He is currently the CTO of Amdocs Media and is directly responsible for R&Dfor the Identity and Commerce division. He was a technical advisor to Social Deck (acquired by Google), Rubikloud (acquired by Kinaxis) and is an advisor to Deveron a public Agricultural Data Science company.Jay maintained roles in development at Delrina, Symantec, Solect Technology Group, AudienceView Ticketing and was Vice President of Technology and founding employee at Casero Inc (acquired by Radialpoint)

## Michael Katchen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, FinTech

Founder & CEO. Entrepreneur, passionate about transforming investment management.

## Mark Pincus
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, FinTech, Software

Mark Pincus is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder of Playful.AI. Mark previously worked at Tribe.net as a CEO and Co-Founder. Mark Pincus attended 
Harvard Business School.

## Alexis Ohanian
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Blockchain

Alexis Ohanian is the President and Founder of 776 Foundation. He previously worked at reddit as an Executive Chair and Board Member. Alexis Ohanian attended the University of Virginia.

## Lee Lau
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Wearables, Internet of Things

Lee Lau is a Partner and Co-Founder of Alignvest Management Corporation. Mr. Lau co-founded ATI Technologies in 1985 and built the company into one of the world’s largest supplier of graphic chips and add-in boards to the personal computer industry. In addition to managing the company, Mr. Lau was ATI’s largest shareholder, first employee andresponsible for innovation and development of all products. Mr. Lau helped build ATI into a TSX and NASDAQ listed global market leader, with annual sales in excess of $2.2 billion and over 3,000 employees. ATI was sold in 2006 to Advanced Micro Devices for cash and stock consideration of $5.3 billion. Since then, Mr. Lau has managed his family office investing in a variety of alternative asset products. Prior to founding ATI, Mr. Lau held various design engineering positions with Mitel, Motorola and Plessey.Mr. Lau holds a Masters in Engineering and a BASc from the University of Toronto.

## Ted Rheingold
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Finance

Ted Rheingold was an experienced owner/operator that realigned his Internet, startup and business experience to grow cause-oriented for-profit businesses. He was Strategic Advisor for delivering services traditionally provided by non-profit. He recently wrote about his InVenture provides financial identity and credit scoring services to the previously unbanked in South Asia and Africa. It offers free SMS, Voice and Android money-management tools for small business owners and head of households and licenses it's credit scoring services and algorithms to finance institutions, NGOs, governments, and credit providers. Ted is perhaps best know for founding and serving as CEO of Dogster, Inc. makers of Ted sold Dogster & Catster to Ted's first business Previously Ted served as Engineering Production Leads at Voquette and Preview TravelHe has served as a Mentor with 500 Startups and i/o Ventures. And has Investor and Advised at Lumatic, Colingo, Visually, TastemakerX, Petsana, DogVacay, StoryPanda, Reclip.it, Colloquy, Ad Hoc Labs & Cir.caTed Rheingold died from kidney cancer on September 4, 2017.

## Jacky Chen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Jacky is dedicated to angel investment and has built up a portfolio of more than thirty startup companies in Canada and the US. His target investments are the early-stage B2B companies with disruptive technologies and business potential in enterprise software, information technologies, MedTech, and Advanced Manufacturing.Jacky has acquiredconcrete business experiences as a successful founder in the startup ecosystem and an executive of Fortune 500 companies over two decades. His remarkable accomplishments range from building startups from scratch to leading a billion-dollar business with the leverage of 14,000 enterprise channel partners. The unique journey has shaped Jacky's outstanding of investing in early startups.Jacky holds the degrees of Mater's E.E. and MBA, and he graduated from CEIBS and The Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania.

## Tinie Tempah
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Art, Apps

Tinie shot to prominence with his chart-topping album 'Disc-Overy' which featured the #1s 'Pass Out' & 'Written In the Stars'. 2 x BRITs, a MOBO and an Ivor Novello followed. His 2nd album 'Demonstration' featured collaborators such as Dizzee Rascal, Emeli Sandé & Laura Mvula. In 2015, Tinie returnedwith 'Not Letting Go' and a feature on KDA's 'Turn The Music Louder'. Both topped the charts to give him 7 UK #1s - the most by any artist this decade.

## Jeff B. Smith
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fashion, Software, E-Commerce

Jeff B. Smith is the Co-founder and Partner at Ignite Growth Brands.

## Gemini Waghmare
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fashion, Software, E-Commerce

Gemini Waghmare is the Co-Founder at Openscreen, Inc.

## Joe Mimran
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Consumer, Furniture, Lifestyle

Joe Mimran

## Tom Williams
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Financial Services

Tom Williams

## Garry Tan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Garry Tan is based out of Mountain View, California and is the President & CEO of Y Combinator. Garry Tan attended Stanford University.

## Roham Gharegozlou
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency

Roham is founder and CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio that specializes in emerging technology. Axiom Zen’s first public blockchain project, CryptoKitties, is the world’s most successful blockchain game and the first decentralized application to effectively engage a consumer audience. CryptoKitties has been covered by Fortune,Bloomberg, and the BBC, accounting for roughly a quarter of the Ethereum network’s traffic within a week of launch and introducing hundreds of thousands of new users to blockchain technology. Axiom Zen was named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business. Their products have touched 200+ million consumers and are used by the world’s leading companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA, as well as by eminent academic institutions and government organizations. They pride themselves in diversity of talent: a team of ~80+ creatives includes published authors, over a dozen former founders, diversity from 20+ national origins, and decades of collective experience at startups and Fortune 500s alike. Axiom Zen has been working with Bitcoin and various forms of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies since 2014. Axiom Zen is also the team behind ZenHub, the world’s leading collaboration solution for technical teams using GitHub; and the developer of Timeline, named Apple’s Best App of January, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, and Best New App in 88 countries. Axiom Zen is the creator of Toby, recognized as Top Chrome Extension of the year by both Google and Product Hunt, and the parent company of Hammer & Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR). Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, and Fast Company. History Prior to founding Axiom Zen, Roham served with the Rising Tide Fund bas

## Marc Morin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Marc, our Chief Executive Officer, co-founded Sandvine (TSX:SVC) and served as its Chief Technology Officer, developing the company's vision and technology strategy.
Prior to Sandvine, he was co-founder at PixStream which was acquired by Cisco Systems.

## Mo Larbi Bennis
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Consumer, Nightlife, Enterprise

Mo Larbi Bennis

## Pierre Lortie
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Cosmetics, Manufacturing

Pierre Lortie

## Kevin Mahaffey
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Kevin Patrick Mahaffey is the Founder of Lookout and SNR. He is also the Executive Chairman of Stork Club and an Investor.

## Mike Katchen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Apps

Michael Katchen is the Co-founder & CEO of  Wealthsimple.

## Bryan Freeman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Analytics, Apps, SaaS

Bryan Freeman - Co-Founder @ HitGrab

## Harley Finkelstein
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Marketplace

Harley Finkelstein is the Co-Founder of Firebelly Tea and the President of Shopify. He previously worked at C100 as a Board Member. Harley Finkelstein attended the University of Ottawa and Concordia University.

## Cheryl Cheng
- Type: Angel
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Email, Content

Cheryl Cheng joined BRV in 2008.  She focuses on early stage consumer and mobile big data opportunities.  Cheryl also runs BRV’s alumni entrepreneur and Fortune 500 programs to bring experience and resources to the current portfolio.  Prior to BlueRun, Cheryl worked at Clorox and The Sharper Image launching new products and driving retail marketingwith partners across Target, Walmart and grocery.Cheryl has a B.A. from Stanford University and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management where she was a Forte Scholar.  She is a mentor at Stanford’s Bio-Design for Mobile Health course, a collaboration between Stanford’s School of Medicine and School of Engineering.

## Satish Kanwar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile Apps, FinTech, Art

Satish Kanwar is a VP of Product at Shopify, where he oversees strategic product initiatives for over 1 million merchants globally. Satish led Shopify’s formative expansion from online stores to multi-channel commerce, accelerating merchants' sales across eCommerce, brick-and-mortar, and new sales channels. Satish previously co-founded userexperience studio Jet Cooper, which was acquired by Shopify in order to establish its product development footprint in Toronto. Satish is an active angel investor, public speaker, and advisor.He attended the University of Toronto Scarborough.

## Rasool Rayani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Content, Cloud Computing

Rasool is a serial entrepreneur with experience in the software, healthcare, and CPG industries. He continues to maintain his passion for technology as an active angel investor with a focus on b2b, consumer saas and health tech. Rasool maintains an active role with CEO’s as a board member, mentor and advisor. He currently serves on the boards ofthe Victoria Foundation, VIATEC, and Checkfront Software.

## Craig Hunter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Retail, Lifestyle, Home Decor

CEO at Dwelling.co, angel investor in 60+ companies.
Previously was early Uber (first 50), first GM at Ritual ($160m+ raised), CEO at Bitmaker (acquired by General Assembly), and VP Growth @ ChefHero ($12m+ raised).

## Andrew Chen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Media and Entertainment, Internet

Andrew Chen is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, focusing on consumer technology. Previously, he led the the Rider Growth teams at Uber.For the past decade, he’s written about mobile, metrics, and growth at http://andrewchen.co. He is an advisor/investor for tech startups including AngelList, Barkbox, Boba Guys, Dropbox,Front, Gusto, Kiva, Product Hunt, Tinder, Workato and others.Previously, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based firm with $2B under management.He holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington.

## Ian Logan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Art, Apps, Mobile

Ian Logan is the VP Engineering at Rose Rocket, a SaaS-based Transportation Management System (TMS) specializing in workflow automation for Enterprise and SMB transport companies.He was the former VP Engineering at Drop, an intelligent app that surfaces offers & rewards based on what members are spending, creating a personalized, seamlessexperience.He was also a former Director of Engineering for Payments at Airbnb, a community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique spaces around the world. Ian has led engineering teams over many years, overseeing architecture and implementation of the website and helped Airbnb grow the payments platform internationally to process dozens of different currencies and payment methods. Ian joined Airbnb as an early engineer and built out other teams related to growth and site performance engineering. In a previous life, Ian built core trading algorithms and applications for world-class investment banks.

## Tobyn Sowden
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: iOS, Music, Android

Tobyn Sowden is the CEO at Redbrick.He attended University of Victoria.

## Andrew Chau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Art

Andrew Chau is the co-founder of Neo Financial
He used to be the co-founder of SkipTheDishes. He handles business development and strategy for this company.

## Joseph Roos
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boca Raton, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Other, Design, Clothing/Apparel

Joseph Roos - Principal @ Marc Bell Ventures

## Manica Blain
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Beauty, Software

Manica Blain, consumer-focused investor and Founder of Top Knot Ventures.

## Nadav Ben-Chanoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

## Danny Zhang
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Web3, Retail

believer and executor of data-centric, metrics-driven engineering developmentmath/science ==> profitable productdeliver; deliver; deliver.Specialties: 1) c++ / java / perl / python2) search / search advertising platform (E2E) / hadoop / data pipeline / linear optimization / solr /lucene3) no life, when I am at work;4) no work, when I am enjoying my life.

## Deborah Liu
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Learning, E-Commerce

Deborah Liu is the CEO at Ancestry. She is also a board memebr of Intuit.

## Steve Anderson
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Hardware

A Seattle native, Steve Anderson is a seed investor. Steve founded Baseline Ventures, a privately held early stage seed investor in 2006.Bringing his diverse experience from eBay, Microsoft, Kleiner Perkins, Starbucks and Digital Equipment Corporation, Steve founded Baseline to in order to help entrepreneurs build and grow their ideas intocompanies. Steve was also named to the Forbes Midas list three years running (peaking at #5) for earning top returns for entrepreneurs and investors. Since its inception, Baseline has invested in more than 90 companies and helped more than 30 companies exit profitably for founders and investors alike. Baseline is proud to be a seed investor associated with the following highly promising companies: Instagram (founding investor) and Parakey (both acquired by Facebook)Heroku, ExactTarget, GoInstant and CoTweet (all acquired by Salesforce.com)Crashlytics and GeoAPI (both acquired by Twitter)IndexTank (acquired by LinkedIn)Librato (acquired by SolarWinds)Rupture (acquired by EA)Sendori (acquired by Ask.com)Versely (acquired by Cisco)Aardvark and DocVerse (both acquired by Google)Yardbarker (acquired by Fox Sports)BookFresh (acquired by Sugar Media)Cake Financial (acquired by E*Trade)ScanScout (acquired by Tremor Media)StaxNetworks (acquired by Cloudbees)Hunch (acquired by eBay)Instructables (acquired by AutoDesk)Flowtown (acquired by DemandForce)OMGPop (acquired by Zynga)Xobni (acquired by Yahoo!)Metaresolver (acquired by Millenial Media)

## Rajiv Khaneja
- Type: Angel
- Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Mobile, Travel

Rajiv Khaneja is the Founder at AdButler

## Mike Murchison
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Art

Mike Murchison is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ada, the leading provider of AI customer support chatbots. Ada provides a simple and powerful authoring environment, cutting edge machine learning, and lightning-fast deployment, automating millions of chat conversations per month for clients such as TELUS, Coinbase, and Shopify. In partnership withGenesys, Ada is helping companies improve their customer experience, dramatically reduce costs, and increase support team productivity.

## Stéphane St-Hilaire
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Consumer, Automotive

Stéphane St-Hilaire is chief executive officer and president of ADESA.As chief executive officer and president, St-Hilaire directs the development and implementation of the company’s overall strategy and growth objectives, and is responsible for ADESA’s North American operations.St-Hilaire joined ADESA Canada in 1998 as chief financialofficer. From there, he quickly moved into other senior positions throughout the organization. In 1999, St-Hilaire became ADESA Montreal’s general manager, and was promoted to regional manager in 2000. In 2002, St-Hilaire became regional vice president of Eastern Canada and general manager of ADESA Montreal. In January 2009, St-Hilaire was named chief operating officer for ADESA Canada, and in 2014 he was appointed to his current role as CEO and president of ADESA.Prior to joining ADESA, St-Hilaire worked as a senior accountant at Ernst & Young and the controller at AIT Corporation.St-Hilaire has earned a number of professional awards including: the Ford Motor Company Award, the ADESA Canada Auction of the Year Award and the ADESA Customer Service Award. He holds a degree in commerce from Laval University and a degree in administration from Limoilou College. He also earned a chartered accountant certificate from the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.

## Michael Litt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Computer

Michael is the co-founder and CEO of the leading Video Marketing platform.

## Ken Miyoshi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: FinTech, Video, Enterprise Software

Ken Miyoshi

## Guillaume Laliberte
- Type: Angel
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Art, Apps, Mobile

Guillaume Laliberte - Founder & CEO @ Setter

## Paul Kedrosky
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Diego, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series C
- Focus: Software, Events, Product Search

Dr. Kedrosky is a co-founder and managing partner at SK Ventures, an early-stage venture firm. He has more than two dozen investments in drones, mobile, software as a service, and other areas. He has sold companies to Cisco, Twitter, and many others.He is currently a contributing editor at Bloomberg, where he comments regularly on early-stagetechnology & startups. He has been an advisor to the Kauffman Foundation, and remains an advisor to OMERS Ventures, a large Canadian venture investor. He was previously a venture partner with Venture West, a $500m venture capital firm. Dr Kedrosky began his career in technology sales & marketing, before becoming a technology equity research analyst at various major investment banks. He has an undergraduate degree in engineering, a master's in finance, and PhD in information technology.

## Shane Parrish
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Fashion, Fitness, Internet

Shane Parrish is the Chief Executive Officer of Syrus Partner.

## David Zhang
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series B, Series D
- Focus: FinTech, Art, Social Media

David Zhang joined Silver Lake in 2013 as a Director. Previously, he worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Credit Suisse in San Francisco. Mr. Zhang graduated with distinction from the University of Western Ontario with a B.A. in Honors Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business

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